>>18692178>the experience required to rig your chute every week to ensure it's packed appropriately (you can't just store it forever)There are many solutions that would work and many that might work better then nothing. Ropes with loops hanging off a helicopter.
There are also solutions like for whole airplanes. Prepacked chutes exist. Even a smaller then normal size leg breaker chute would give you a better chance then freefall at terminal velocity. A large tent would likely give you better odds then freefall. A carabiner and 10 pounds of 900 pound strength Kevlar cord would be more then reach ground level too. Many solutions existed.
The problem is nobody knew. Not only did nobody up there have anything like that. Could firefighters have dropped off stuff like that with a drone or had drones to pickup people. No they can't think of shit like that. But firefighters could have had ropes with loops dangling off a helicopter. Bigger problem is firefighters likely didn't know the building was coming down, which is why firefighters were in the building too.
